Eben07

Welcome to the Intelligence Cleaner Agency and the Eben07 comic

An Introduction from J. Herman Shepard

As the Director of Operations for the Intelligence Cleaner Agency, I am  responsible for the authorization of the Eben07 comic. The I.C.A. is a secret organization that has been thrust into the public eye and  forced to declassify our archives. We were mandated by congressional oversight and a clause in the US Patriot Act, to illustrate the role the I.C.A. played in calamitous events we may or may not have been responsible for.

Naturally, the I.C.A. will have some security issues. Allowing specific agents to speak directly to the public was troublesome and apparently created some “situations.” As a new reader, you are probably wondering, what the heck is the I.C.A., I’ve never heard of it. My goal here is to clear that up.

The ICA’s mission is to make sure the public never discovers the ultra-secret covert operations of the worlds most elite, and often destructive, secret agents and action heroes – so they send in cleaner operatives to recover, destroy, rebuild, and otherwise manage the many potential intelligence liabilities – be it dead henchmen, bodyguards, or the complete removal and repurposing of an underground space rocket facility inside a volcano.

Fortunately for the ICA,  the Patriot Act never specified the format in which the ICA released the declassified archives, and Agent Eben07 suggested what about a cartoon. As the head of the ICA, I agreed with his thought. I felt it would be appropriate way to control the outgoing information and it could protect the secret nature of the agencies work, as well as our agents.

We sought getting a famed illustrator to make each declassified archive into a comic featuring a handful of premier cleaners of the organization primarily Eben07 and his partner Ninja Dan – as the two were directly involved in the events that lead to our declassification.

The creative team behind the ICA’s comics tell the tale in a episodic format, with an on-going overstory being told.  Comics are called “declassifications” and are set in “operations” which could be considered chapters, but are more like individual stories or episodes that will sometimes intertwine and build the overall explanation of the I.C.A.s involvement in these calamitous events.

Welcome and Enjoy,

J.H.Shepard
Director of Intelligence
Intelligence Cleaner Agency

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Recommended Reading Order

Each episode should stand on it’s own two legs as an engaging and complete read. However, the Eben07 comic has an over-plot and many of the “Operations” tie into others. The best place to just jump in and start is here: click here

Otherwise, below is the recommended reading order and a quick briefing on what the Operation concerns:

Operation : The Twin Cheeks — Not so much a field operation, but some office hijinx mounted by Agent Eben07. Introduces many of the characters in the Eben07 comic – particularly Eben07, his partner Ninja Dan, and their supervisor Clancy Ryan Ford, Jr.

Ben Kurns Presents: The I.C.A. — This series gives a lot of background on the I.C.A.’s origins, founder, and activities throughout history. It also deals with the major overplot point – the theft of an important I.C.A. treasure.

Operation : Clean the Cleaners — This is the first fully declassified field operation. Originally declassified as a three part series – Ride the Snake Eater, Snake in the Box, and Old Pain in the Asp combine to be Operation: Clean the Cleaners. Eben07 and Ninja Dan were sent to Russia to clean after a top operative of an American covert agency. However, things take a wrong turn as zombies, tranquilizers, spirit animals and ancestors get thrown into the mix.

Idols Unfit for Display — Deals with a historical case where I.C.A. founder, Abel, and his trusty sidekick, Danjuro, went deep into the jungles of Peru to clean a temple raided by an American archaeologist. Also, reveals the beginnings of a rivalry between the I.C.A. and a notable organization.

Operation : Goofinger — Another declassified field operation of Eben07 and Ninja Dan. Both agents were sent to Ft. Knox, Kentucky to assess and dispose of the gold depository after a skirmish between CIA/MI6 forces and an undisclosed independent third party. However, the field operation was regrettably interrupted by outside forces seeking to compromise the I.C.A.’s mission.

Operation : For the Love of Russia — Field operations take I.C.A. agents all over the world, but Agent Eben07 always is excitable when they take place in Russia. Just the mear mention of Russia sends him dreaming of possibilities of adventures. However, as Eben07 lay asleep dreaming on the train Ninja Dan finds out they are riding on the mission and attempts to wake 07, he finds his in a lot more than he bargained for.

Operation : Mongoose — Our history is important to us here at the I.C.A. and our founder was involved in many historic events. During the 1960′s, Abel was asked by John F. Kennedy to step out of his role as director of espionage waste management and assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro. Little did Abel know at the time, this operation would be one that would haunt him for a long time.

Operation: Three Ring Bound – Janitors go missing around the nation and J.Herman Shepard secretly pulls Eben07 and Ninja Dan away from their vacations to go undercover & investigate the source of the disappearance – Popkin High School. As we learned in Operation: Mongoose, espionage janitors don’t make the best cloak & dagger field agents, can Eben07 and Ninja Dan put their rivalry aside and work together to overcome the fact they are in their early 30s and are posing as high school students?